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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.[/quote]

Don’t worry, they’ll do the right thing when they run out of every other choice.  It’s the American way.[/quote]

The problem is our media.

During WWII, during Pearl Harbor, most of the country got behind FDR because the respectable media all did.  (Before Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh and other anti-immigration types, and some eugencists, and some actual American Nazis all prevented FDR from entering by supporting the Axis.)

After Pearl Harbor there was a basically unified message from our newspapers and via radio.  Not that there wasn't a struggle to control the message, but journalists and everyone saw the Japanese attack as an attack on the US and mostly unified as a country.

Today, our media is fractured, and some media cares more about their party than about the country.  Coordinated messaging supporting the president, even as he makes mistakes, has prevented a unified call for social distancing.  And the real media is still entrenched in chasing ratings (CNN, MSBC), or bothsidesism (NYT, WaPo).

Gotta fix the media if we want to fix the country.  Shrug.  We know what we have to do.[/quote]

The first step would be shut down Twitter [/quote]

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